ENG 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Infant Mortality, Amorality, Oral Tradition
20 Sep 2017
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Express the ideology and cultural conditions of their time and place. Every variant of a fairy tale tells a different story of the culture it"s aiming for. Notions of childhood and the child are also historically specific. Notions change in different times and places in history. Fairy tales are part of the folktale tradition that began in oral tradition. Some of our storytelling practices are continuations of traditions begun in medieval. Cultures around the world that are not strong in writing rely heavily on the oral tradition, and have much better memorization. Oral stories began to get written down, then later illustrated and digitized. Oral culture is the most flexible of all traditions because it isn"t scripted. Always changes to fit certain circumstances of time and place. We recognize fairy tales across eras and cultures because of stable genre conventions. Fairy tales have a very simple structure. Often ends with coming into wealth, or growth in status.
